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and raised about a foot from the ground. Each opens into a yard, 

 with a door of communication so arranged as to be left partly open 

 without allowing the slightest draught to blow upon the beds. 

 These yards, ah, he, cd, da, are all roofed in, and bounded on the 

 outer side by open pales guarded by coarse wire net, to prevent the 

 teeth of the inmates gnawing them. They are separated by narrow 

 partitions, which slide up to allow of the dogs having the whole 

 run ; or they may be left down, and the upper part open, so as to 



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encourage the puppies to fence, by the necessity for jumping over 

 them in pursuing one another. The floors should be of glazed 

 tiles, adamantine clinkers, Dutch clinkers, Broseley bricks, or 

 cement, the last being the most clean and free from absorption, 

 which ought always to be entirely prevented. Each sleeping-place 



and yard should have a trapped drain, so as to carry off any wet 



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